Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/8] removal of tci (tcg interpreter)

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 29/06/2017 17:46, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> TCI is enabled only with a specific configure argument if your machine
>> is not supported by TCG.  This would break _build_ configurations, not
>> user configurations.  It's a remote possibility that users are building
>> their own QEMU, with TCI enabled, to work around a TCG bug.  So we can
>> be more speedy in removing the code.
> You never know ... it's unlikely, but there might be people around who
> run configure with "--enable-tcg-interpreter" on purpose.

And they have never reported a bug? :)  But I agree it's not a big deal.
 Richard should decide.

Paolo

> And why the
> hurry for removing this? It's been around in the current shape since
> years, so waiting for two more releases does not hurt, does it?